· It is a painting that I know since I was a kid and that had caused a deep impression on me. He is part of my own personal imaginary. As I kept thinking about this Nobleman, wondering about his life and times, the seed of “PASSAGES” started to grow.

· “PASSAGES” is not only a meditation about the passing of time, but also about something so ephemeral as power. The project is articulated through a series of portraits of a prominent couple in the temporal environment of the XVI century and, in parallel, the very same couple transported to the XXI century.

· Besides, there is also a meditation about power and its symbolic representation. Think of a newlywed gentleman and his young wife portrayed with the attributes of their privileged social position. They come from aristocratic, influential or perhaps wealthy merchant families in Spain, in Flanders…? Portraits are made to stage and proclaim their alliance. These portraits will be hanged in the main lounge of their residence for all to see. There is no love here. Their marriage is a marriage of convenience, a step forward in the consolidation of well-defined interests. Power interests, political interests, economic interests … Perhaps she has been sacrificed in benefit of those complex interests.

· Ambition ignores the architecture of time. We are talking about ambition and interests that remain as the essence of these archetypes regardless of time coordinates. Time is the stage on which these ambitions are played.

· Formally, these characters are built with no compromise with “historicism”. There is no attempt to provide an entomological vision of historic wardrobes and props. This is not an essay on mannerism. The characters are framed in a certain temporal interval by wrapping them in anachronistic and non-historicist resources like curtains, tablecloths, napkins, placemats, bedspreads, cushion covers, shirts, jackets, ties, scarves,… Temporal reality is as vulnerable as that: unexpected parallel realities can be created with everyday items. And yet they remain perfectly believable, perfectly real.